Hello. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak to you today.
Let me begin by giving you a feel for my role within the organization, so that you understand where I'm coming from with my remarks today. As the director general of partnerships and risk mitigation at the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security within the Communications Security Establishment, I'm responsible for three main functions.
First is building trust-based partnerships with all levels of government, Canadian critical infrastructure and the private industry. Second is providing cybersecurity architecture advice and guidance to our partners and the Canadian public at large based on the threat landscape that we observe. Third is implementing risk mitigation programs aimed at reducing the risks identified through our assessments of technologies on the basis of our understanding of the threat environment, which is informed by both—